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Collection | Jerusalem, Museum of the Pontifical Biblical Institute |
Inventory Number | Ostr. Jerusalem, PBI 546 |
Publication Number | O. Varia 5, P.L. Bat. 26 5 |
Current Location | magazine |
Publication Permission Status | permission for publication upon enquiry only |
Publication Status | published |
Ancient Provenance Site | Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high |
Ancient Provenance District | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Type of Discovery | archaeological excavation Certainty: high |
Finder (= First Purchaser) | Mallon, Alexis SJ Certainty: high |
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Elephantine |
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution | donation |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | Mallon, Alexis SJ Certainty: high |
Object Type | ostracon |
Color | pottery, light brown |
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) | 59 mm | 65 mm | 12 mm |
Range of Preservation | complete |
State of Preservation | Complete. |
Mounting | (non [ostracon]) |
Localization of Text on Object | convex (outside) | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
Range of Preservation (Text) | complete | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Complete, some signs faded. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Text Layout | Narrow line pitch. The complete text covers nearly the entire surface of the sherd, without margins. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 4 | 0 |
Quantity of Columns | 1 | 0 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 65 | 0 |
Column Height (in mm) | 41 | 0 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 65 x 41 | 0 |
Modern Title | receipt for yoke tax |
Ancient Archives | private archive | inidividual tax payer |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Text Types |
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Summary of Content | Orseus, son of Payris, is confirmed by Pasenis, son of Eschnoumis of having paid the yoke tax of the 8th regnal year in an amount of 0,5+1/12 kite |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
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ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
6625 | man | Orseus, son of Payris | Wrše sꜢ Pa-Ḥr | pre-Coptic Egyptian |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos | 08 | Pharmuthi | 18 | -277 June 11 BCE | internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
DatasetID | 307173 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 3000 |
Author | Jan Moje |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 307173 (= Ostr. Jerusalem, PBI 546), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje. |